A transformable object generates temporary spaces by shifting between furniture and coffin.
The object can be reconfigured, used by living bodies, and ultimately employed as a coffin after death.
Created in collaboration with students during an Artist-in-Residence at the Sculpture Program of Anne Arundel Community College, the work explores transitions between everyday function and existential condition.
Ordinary actions such as sitting, lying, or working flow seamlessly into spatial and existential states.
The object transforms from functional furniture into a place of retreat — extending to a final resting place.
This ambiguity interweaves life, use, and finitude within a single structure.
Movement, use, and context determine each manifestation.
Space becomes visible not as static architecture, but as a temporary practice emerging from action, body, and material.
Publication details
Type
Sculpture
Year
2012
Materials
Textile, wood, foam, structural elements
Dimentions
variable (as furniture: coffin/bed 185 × 70 × 43 cm; tables each 35 × 40 × 76 cm; chair 99 × 70 × 43 cm) Video documentation: 1:22 min